On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 10:38 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 12 September 2005 08:58 am, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > > > Hi, as I mentioned, I built LFS without this (and I have coreutils on > > > it ;) > > > > > > Not at all - if we need to modify or create configure files during build > > > as Paul and Martin said ... we need autoconf/automake > > > > And furthermore, many programs (or upstream authors if you prefer) are > > braindead and don't know what some non-x86 arches are without updating > > the config.sub/config.guess, and re-running autoconf/automake. > > those two files dont require re-running autoconf/automake > > it isnt uncommon though to have upstream run autotools in the wrong order and > package the result as their release ... then when you run `./configure && > make`, the build system has mismatched timestamps and thus tries to invoke > autotools to fix itself :/
Toss in libtool in the mess, and it runs aclocal, autoconf and then automake, and you end up with a mismatched ltmain.sh and whatever macro's of libtool expanded in configure, causing either breakage (random or not), or in our case an error informing about the mismatch :/ -- Martin Schlemmer
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